To QoS or not to QoS

#21

QoS becomes essential in local WIFI

#22

Yep locally for internal calls not a problem QOS is mandatory… externally you can only prioritise the input / ouput at the edge unless it is over a private wan link for calls.

#23

Sounds like a great topic for a video :wink:

#24

It would be nice to have a simple best practices guide on configuring nat/ firewall / switches for security/vlan/QoS for the most common scenarios:

  1. all phones and ucm local;
  2. phones at multiple offices with ucm at one using site to site vpn,
  3. and phones at multiple sites/road warriors / work from home not using site to site vpn.
#25

Well said…

#26

That is how this sounded.

#27

Sounds like expensive switching equipment, what are you using to QoS on the LAN?

#28

If you are putting in on prem VoIP and not using routers and switches that can do QoS you should be.

#29

I think I will get a few videos up about this soon.

#30

Will thats awesome mate… which firewall router are you using?

#31

Multiple. GWN7000 is popular these days because of OpenVPN. Protectli with OPNSense, EdgeRouters, Sonicwalls.

#32

I had previously used the predecessor to OPNSense, PFSense, but now Watchguard and Mikrotik are the flavours for granular control under a commercial licence.

#33

I’ve never really considered prioritising voice on an internal network, I figured on smaller clients that gigabit switching would be enough and on larger ones gigabit and VLAN’s. Unless you’re talking MPLS? We don’t have a lot of WIFI phones out there, given WIFI is more ‘hub’ like than switching I can see a potential need there. Prioritising what the router sends to the internet makes sense and we configure that.

#34

“I showed him that simply using ZOOM he had irregular voice problems (he also had a “toy” firewall), but this is an additional “serious problem””

translation problems aside, you have to explain to me where in this sentence you read that I wrote that Draytek are toys :slight_smile:

#35

Nothing more than I mentioned using Draytek and your reply said they ‘also’ used a toy firewall. I am putting it down to a misinterpretation of a post.

#36

ah ok, your interpretation,
but that’s not what I said.
I generalized and I certainly wasn’t referring to you, I’m sorry you thought it :slight_smile:

#37

I (brand new here) have a question about a Zoom & QOS, and I apologise if this is OT.

I’m helping out with a conference, and the Internet (installed specifically and exclusively for us at the conference) is being provided simply as a WAN cable and wifi router.
The room is quite large so wifi will be off on the router and covered by 3 x GWN7660’s.

Zoom will be the primary app for translations (about 100 people) and I am hoping there is a way to set up QOS in GWN Cloud, to give Zoom the highest priority across our little network.

I can’t seem to find anything that assists and hope that someone may have some guidance that doesn’t involve adding our own physical firewall.

Thanks